StoryTelling. Mrs. Nelson's Class - MrsNelsonsClass.com. Jdvegas › Log InBlog. New Teacher Boot Camp with Lisa M. Dabbs M.Ed. Hands-on practice with five powerful Web 2.0 tools. Lisa M Dabbs M Ed. is the facilitator of Edutopia's New Teacher Connections group; she is also the founder of the weekly #ntchat for new teachers on Twitter, and one of the organizers of #edcampOC. She's been all over the country -- virtually and in real life -- in her mission to support new and pre-service teachers. We are honored to have her as the steward of this summer program! As part of our Summer Professional Development Series, we're excited to offer a free workshop on Web 2.0 tools for new teachers. Over the five-week workshop, participants will learn about one new tool a week, then they'll do some practice lessons before developing their own.
As a group, participants will also be able to brainstorm ways to integrate these tools into the classroom in creative and engaging ways. The boot camp happens virtually, via the blogs archived on this page. July 5, 2011: Using Wordle in the Classroom Aug 2, 2011: Using Blogs in the Classroom. Collaborative storytelling. Six Steps to Wonderful Graphs. Mr. Guch's rules for Good Graph Making: 1. Always give your graph a title in the following form: "The dependence of (your dependent variable) on (your independent variable). Let's say that you're doing a graph where you're studying the effect of temperature on the speed of a reaction.
In this reaction, you're changing the temperature to known values, so the temperature is your independent variable. Because you don't know the speed of the reaction and speed depends on the temperature, the speed of the reaction is your dependent variable. 2. For the graph described above, temperature would be on the x-axis (the one on the bottom of the graph), and the reaction rate would be on the y-axis (the one on the side of the graph) 3. Putting numbers on the x and y-axes is something that everybody always remembers to do (after all, how could you graph without showing the numbers?). 4. Never, ever make a bar graph when doing science stuff. 5. Why? 6. Stu's Quiz Boxes!
Mind Mapping & Diagrams.